Question? Can we shape the years we have left?

I feel obliged to make a clarifying remark, because 100 years later, we physicists know much more about the universe than Einstein did at the time. Today, we have access to a wealth of magnificent discovery tools such as particle accelerators, supercomputers, space telescopes, and experiments such as the work of LIGO on gravitational waves. But dear readers, don’t throw away your hard-earned money just yet, because our most powerful attribute is still our imagination.

It allows us to roam freely throughout space and time, and it is very important to then engage in the most far-reaching thoughts. We can observe the vast array of the most exotic natural phenomena while driving relaxed in our cars, dozing and slumbering in bed, or pretending to listen attentively and with interest to someone at a party.
As a boy, the electric train (N gauge) was not only my hobby, but in order to keep to an exact timetable, I was passionate about examining remote control circuits to find out how they worked. Back then, it was obvious to take something apart and figure out how it worked. I didn’t always manage to reassemble the toys I had taken apart, but I certainly learned more than a boy or girl who would try the same trick with a smartphone today. However, it is still my favorite job to figure out how things actually work—only the enormous, I almost said infinite, scale has changed.

So I try to imagine something else…
…how the universe works, of course, using the laws of physics. If you, or rather if one wants to know how something works, we can control it. That sounds absolutely simple when I put it that way! And yet I describe it as an exciting, complex undertaking that I have always found fascinating and exciting throughout my entire „adult“ life. I have
worked „incognito“ with some of the world’s most eminent scientists. I was fortunate to live in a veritable golden age of my field of expertise – „cosmology,“ the study of the „origins of the universe.“ I realize that the human mind is an incredible phenomenon. It can imagine the grandeur of the celestial spheres and the transparent subtleties of the basic components of matter.
However, in order for the mind to reach and realize its full potential, a special spark is required: the spark of „curiosity“ and wonder. This spark often comes from a teacher of days gone by.

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